Good Samaritan Society Canistota

To go along with a strong overall score, we awarded this nursing home an A+ for our inspection category. Inspection grades are tied to many datapoints located in the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Places that score well in this area have few deficiencies on their reports. Most importantly, these places generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Although this place had some deficiencies on its inspection report, none were severe based on CMS' scale. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.

This nursing home also was given a high-end long-term care score. Indeed, this turned out to be this facility's second best category score. In that category, this facility received a grade of A. When facilities receive this kind of score in this category it is usually a good sign for patient care and suggests that the place is well-staffed with nurses aids. Once we looked at the quantity of care provided by nurses and other staff, we then looked at the facility's vaccination data. This facility vaccinated 97.36842 percent of its patients against pneumonia, which is much higher than the average nursing home. Finally, this place was able to limit hospitalizations. In fact, it had less than one hospitalization per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is a remarkably low number.

This nursing home also received a very impressive nursing grade. In that area, we awarded this facility a grade of A-. We looked at the licensure of nurses employed by the facility, in addition to the number of hours those nurses were with residents, in determining our grade in this area. This nursing home provides 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, our nursing grades also factor in quality-based assessments, such as avoiding major falls. This nursing home performed well in this area. Avoiding major falls is typically a good indicator that a facility has reliable quality controls in place. Major falls can many times be avoided if more nurses aids and better safety protocols are in place.

In our last category, we awarded this facility a grade of A+ for its short-term care score. This topped off a very impressive profile. In the category of short-term care, we endeavor to evaluate measures of a facility's rehabilitation. We analyze a nursing home's skilled nursing services, such as the ones performed by registered nurses and various therapists. Fortunately, it looks like this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these skilled professionals. On the other hand, based on the information this nursing home provided, it does not look like the facility employs physical therapists. Finally, we looked at the percentage of patients who were able to return to the community from this facility. We found that 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.